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The Lonely Traffic Lightspacer

Once upon a time, there was a traffic

light… a lonely traffic light. She felt that

nobody gave her much attention.

Sometimes people would stand by her

and push the button for the light to

change, and she felt less lonely while

they were waiting. But once the light

changed the people would leave and

cross the street.

At times, when the light was red, the

people waiting in the cars would give her their attention

as they waited for the light to turn green. That also

made her less lonely, but not for long. Once the light

turned green the cars would zoom by without noticing

that she existed.

Then, the traffic light noticed that there was a little red

car that passed by early every morning and again every

afternoon. It was a mother and two little kids dropping

off their Daddy at the train station in the morning and

picking him up in the afternoon.

Sometimes when the light

was red, the two kids would

wave to the traffic light,

show her their stuffed

animals, or stare at her

waiting for the light to change. That made her very

happy. At other times when the light was green the car

would go right through the intersection and the little kids

wouldn't even look at the light. That made her very sad.

The traffic light wanted the attention of the two little

children and decided that the next time she saw the car

she would turn herself red. That would give the kids a

chance to wave to her or stare at her. She thought the

idea sounded very nice, so that is what she did the next

morning and afternoon when she saw the red car.

After a few days of switching herself, the

circuit inside of her pole got messed up

and the light stayed on yellow. She tried

very hard to switch it to red or green but

she just couldn't.

The next morning, the repairmen came

and opened the little door on the side of

her pole. They worked for a couple of

hours and found the problem. The switch that she used

to turn the light from red to yellow to green had burnt

out. In a few minutes they had replaced the bad switch

and the traffic light was back to normal. Now she was

again able to stop the red car and see the little children

every morning and afternoon. But after a few days the

switch burnt out again and the repairmen had to come

out to fix it once more.

As they were working, the traffic light could

hear them talking to each other. She heard

them saying that the traffic light must be

getting too old and that it was really hard

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for all of the people, because it was making

traffic jams when she broke down. When

she looked up she saw a huge line of cars all

waiting and honking. All of the people in

them were very upset because they couldn't

get where they needed to go.

It was then that the traffic light realized how

important she was to all of the people in

their cars. She had always thought that they

were simply ignoring her when they drove away, but now

she knew that without her no one would be able to drive

anywhere. Then she felt very bad that she had caused

all of these problems.

The traffic light did not want to make

people unhappy, so she decided that

from now on she would only switch

herself from green to red when it was the

proper time so that her switch wouldn't

burn out too soon. She thought of how

happy it made people when she was

working properly, and she knew that she

would still see the kids every day, even if

it was for only a few seconds. That made

her VERY happy, and from that day on

she was never lonely again.

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